American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon’s surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at
An IRA bomb has blown a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange. Nobody was injured in the blast, although police say there would have been fatalities if
A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London. Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55,
Two teenage girls from the Midlands have been arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand. Patricia Cahill, 17, and Karen Smith, 18, were stopped by customs officials
A West Indian refused a job at Euston Station will now be employed there after managers overturned a ban on black workers. Two months ago Asquith
British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq have begun to pull out of the region. They had been part of a western relief effort -
The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa has raised triple the £10m expected. And as the London event draws to a close at Wembley
Dozens have been injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh. Violence flared when Orangemen converged on the town yesterday evening after
The World Aids Conference in South Africa has announced trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris (pictured) will
Ronald Biggs - a member of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery in 1963 - has escaped from Wandsworth prison. Biggs, 35, escaped by scaling
A series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground left
Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last. The rover,
The Bank of England has closed down UK branches of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) over allegations of fraud. The bank’s 120,000 UK
Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 150 years of British control. The British flag was lowered over Government House -
Three Russian cosmonauts have been found dead in their space capsule after it made what looked like a perfect landing in Kazakhstan. Lieutenant-Colonel Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav
American and Russian spacecraft have successfully docked in orbit for the first time in 20 years. The US shuttle Atlantis delivered a relief crew of two
The United States has handed power back to the Iraqi people at a low-key ceremony in Baghdad. US administrator Paul Bremer transferred sovereignty to an Iraqi
Yugoslav tanks, troops and aircraft have swept into the small republic of Slovenia, 48 hours after it declared independence. Federal forces moved to seize control of
America’s first woman in space has returned safely to Earth in the Challenger space shuttle after a successful six-day flight. Sally Ride, aged 32, captured the
A passenger jet has disintegrated in mid-air off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board. The Air India flight was only 45 minutes
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